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How to easily Install Linux Mint 8 Helena to USB Flash Drive using Windows. In the following tutorial, we explain how to use Windows and our third party Universal USB Installer to create your own Portable Linux Mint 8 USB Flash Drive. Linux Mint 8 Helena is maintained by Clement Lefebvre and is based on Ubuntu 9.10 Karmic Koala. Amongst many features, Linux Mint offers improved graphical enhancements (some think it looks and feels better than Ubuntu). We think it's simply beautiful!

In the following tutorial, we will show you How to Create a USB Persistent Xubuntu 9.10 Flash Drive using Windows. Xubuntu 9.10, a product of Canonical Ltd is basically Ubuntu with a XFCE desktop GUI. Xubuntu is designed to use less system resources than Ubuntu or Kubuntu, which gives us even more reason to run it from a portable device. Upon completion, you will have a Xubuntu 9.10 Flash Drive that should boot and run on any PC that supports booting from USB.

How to Create a Kubuntu 9.10 Live USB Flash Drive from Windows: Kubuntu is a product of Canonical Ltd that features the KDE desktop environment. In the following tutorial, we show you how we installed Kubuntu 9.10 to a USB Flash Drive using a Windows PC to perform the install. Once finished, Kubuntu 9.10 can be booted and run directly from your portable device. This process uses the casper-rw loopback image file to allow you to persistently save changes and restore those changes on subsequent boots.

Create a Ubuntu 9.10 Live USB Flash Drive from Windows: In the following tutorial, we show you how we installed Ubuntu 9.10 (Karmic Koala), a product of Canonical Ltd to a USB Flash Drive using a Windows PC to perform the install. Upon completion, Ubuntu 9.10 can be natively booted and then run directly from your portable device. Note that this installation process does utilize the casper-rw loopback image file for persistently saving and restoring changes on subsequent boots.

Create a Linux Mint 7 Gloria KDE persistent USB Flash Drive using Windows. In the following tutorial, we explain how to use Windows and our custom script to create a Portable Linux Mint 7 KDE USB flash drive. Linux Mint 7 Gloria KDE is based on Kubuntu 9.04 Jaunty Jackalope and utilizes the KDE 4.2.4 desktop environment. Currently maintained by Clement Lefebvre, more information about Linux Mint can be found at the Official Linux Mint site.

Create a USB Linux Mint 7 persistent flash drive using Windows. In the following tutorial, we show you how we used Windows and our custom script to create a Portable Linux Mint 7 USB flash drive. Linux Mint 7 Gloria is based on Ubuntu 9.04 Jaunty Jackalope and is compatible with it's current repositories. Originally launched as a variant of Ubuntu with integrated media codecs, Linux Mint has developed into an elegant Linux distribution. Currently maintained by Clement Lefebvre, more information about Linux Mint can be found at the Official Linux Mint site.

Note: The persistent feature works just as it does in Ubuntu, allowing you to save and restore most of your changes.

Create a USB Persistent Kubuntu 9.04 Flash Drive using Windows. In the following tutorial, I will show you how we quickly created a Kubuntu 9.04 USB flash drive using our custom USB Installer within Windows. A product of canonical ltd, Kubuntu 9.04 features the popular, elegant and awe inspiring KDE desktop environment. This tutorial makes use of a casper persistent loop file (casper-rw) for saving and restoring most preferences, changes and downloads.

Create a USB Persistent Xubuntu 9.04 Flash Drive using Windows. In the following tutorial, we will cover the process of installing Xubuntu 9.04 to a USB flash drive using Windows and our custom USB Installer script. Xubuntu is product of Canonical ltd that is based on Ubuntu but utilizes the XFCE desktop environment. Xubuntu is designed to use less resources than it's counterparts, making it a great Linux OS to run portably from a USB flash drive. Upon completion, you should have a portable Xubuntu that you can take with you and run from any PC that supports booting from USB.

Create a USB Persistent Ubuntu 9.04 Flash Drive using Windows. In the following tutorial, I show you how we installed Ubuntu 9.04 (Jaunty Jackalope), a product of Canonical Ltd to a USB flash drive using Windows and our USB Installer installation script. Ubuntu 9.04 can then be booted and run entirely from your portable USB device. This Flash Drive creation process does utilize the casper-rw loop block file for persistently saving your changes and restoring these changes on subsequent boots.

Create a Ubuntu 9.10 NetBook Remix Flash Drive using Windows. Ubuntu NetBook Remix is a project of Canonical Ltd tailored for NetBooks. You can put Ubuntu NetBook Remix on a USB Flash Drive from Windows. The Portable Ubuntu NetBook operating system can then be run from the Flash Drive portably without installing or installed directly to your Netbook from the same Flash Drive.

Create a Linux Mint 6 Persistent Flash Drive using Windows. The following tutorial covers how to install, boot and run Linux Mint from a USB device using Windows and our custom USB Installer script to create a portable Linux Mint Flash Drive. Linux Mint 6 Felicia is a remix of Ubuntu Linux 8.10. Originally launched as a variant of Ubuntu with integrated media codecs, Linux Mint has developed into an elegant Linux distribution. Linux Mint is currently maintained by Clement Lefebvre.

In the following tutorial, we cover the process of installing SLAX 6.0.9 to a USB Flash Drive or other portable device. SLAX is a tiny Linux distribution (190MB) created by Tomas Matejicek. SLAX is essentially a stripped down version of Slackware Linux. Currently available as an ISO for Live CD creation or as a tar file for extraction to a USB stick, SLAX Linux also utilizes the ability to save your changes persistently and add or remove modules on the fly.

Create a Xubuntu 8.10 Persistent USB Flash Drive using Windows. The following tutorial covers the process of creating a Xubuntu 8.10 USB flash drive using Windows and our custom script. Xubuntu a product of Canonical ltd is based on Ubuntu but utilizes the XFCE desktop environment. It was designed to use less resources than Ubuntu or Kubuntu, which makes Xubuntu a great candidate to run from a USB flash drive or Live USB.

Create a Kubuntu 8.10 Persistent USB Flash Drive using Windows. The following tutorial covers the process of creating a Kubuntu 8.10 Persistent flash drive using our USB Installer for Kubuntu 8.10. Kubuntu 8.10 is a product of canonical ltd and is based on Ubuntu but sports a KDE 4 desktop instead of Gnome. Some people prefer the KDE desktop due to it's unique graphical look and feel. Upon completion of this tutorial, you should have a bootable Live USB Kubuntu 8.10 that utilizes a persistent loop file (casper-rw) for saving and restoring changes.

Create a Ubuntu 8.10 Persistent USB Flash Drive using Windows. The following tutorial covers the process of creating a Ubuntu 8.10 (Intrepid Ibex) Flash Drive using our custom USB Installer For Ubuntu 8.10 script and Windows. You can then boot and run Ubuntu 8.10 from your USB stick on any computer that can boot from USB. Ubuntu 8.10 will boot from the portable device utilizing the persistent casper-rw loop block file for saving and restoring changes. Ubuntu is a product of Canonical Ltd.

In the following tutorial, we show you how to move your existing Wubi Ubuntu install to an external USB drive. This enables you to take your Wubi install of Ubuntu with you. Moreover, because Wubi is using loopfiles (files that once mounted, act as partitions), the remaining NTFS partitioned drive space is still completely usable by Windows for storage. If you ever should decide you no longer want to play with Ubuntu, you can simply delete it from the external USB drive without the need to delete partitions etc.

Create a Non Persistent Ubuntu 8.10 Live USB Flash Drive from Windows: This simple tutorial covers the creation of a Ubuntu 8.10 (Intrepid Ibex) USB Flash Drive using Windows and our custom script. Upon completion of this tutorial, Ubuntu 8.10 can be run from the portable flash device in the same fashion (but much faster) than it would from the Live CD. This specific tutorial does cover a Ubuntu 8.10 persistence (persistent) casper-rw feature option. Hence the user can save changes back to the USB device using this tutorial.

This ALL In One version of Pendrivelinux 2008 can be run from a USB thumbdrive either natively (as a stand alone Operating System at boot), or within Windows using qemu emulation. Moreover, the user can save installed software, changes, bookmarks, email, contacts and more automatically via a persistent loop image and then restore those changes upon subsequent qemu or native boots. This is a major breakthrough as the user can now run Pendrivelinux 2008 from a USB device even if the computer cannot natively boot from USB and still save changes persistently to be restored regardless of whether booting natively or from qemu.

Create a Knoppix 5.3.1 USB Flash Drive using Windows. This tutorial shows you how we created a Knoppix 5.3.1 Flash Drive using Windows and our custom script. Knoppix is based on Debian GNU/Linux and includes hundreds of useful applications. Here we will show you how to make your own Portable Knoppix 5.3.1 from the Live DVD. You can then boot your portable version of Knoppix Linux from any PC that fully supports USB boot. Note that you will need a large capacity USB flash drive for this tutorial. We personally used a 16GB OCZ ATV flash drive, however an 8GB flash drive should do fine.

Ubuntu 8.04.3 Persistent USB Flash Drive installation tutorial for current Windows users. This tutorial covers the process of installing Ubuntu Hardy Heron to a USB flash drive using the Live CD to create the partitions and a Windows host to perform the build. Ubuntu will uses the persistence feature to save and restore changes back to the flash drive. Hence your changes and settings can be saved and restored upon subsequent boots. The persistence feature was broken with the release of Ubuntu 8.04.3 and this tutorial includes a fixed initrd.gz that addresses the permissions problem which was pointed out here

Ubuntu 8.04 USB Live installation from Windows: This simple tutorial covers how to install, boot and then run Ubuntu 8.04.3 (Hardy Heron) from a USB flash drive. Upon completion of this tutorial, Ubuntu 8.04 can be run from the portable flash device in the same fashion (but much faster) than it would from the Live CD. This specific tutorial does not cover a Ubuntu 8.04.3 persistence (persistent) feature option. Hence the user cannot save changes back to the USB device using this tutorial.

The following tutorial will show you how to easily install PCLinuxOS MiniMe 2008 to a USB flash drive using Windows. This enables a user to quickly create a portable version of PCLinuxOS MiniMe 2008 without having to go through the redundant steps of burning the iso to a CD and then booting from the CD to perform the USB flash drive install from another iso. We really like the latest release of MiniMe from PCLinuxOS and think you will enjoy it as well.

PCLinuxOS MiniMe 2008 is simple, small, clean and works very well on a USB flash pendrive.

The following tutorial covers the process of installing PCLinuxOS 2007 to a USB flash drive using our custom script and Windows. PCLinuxOS 2007 is based on Mandriva kernel 2.6.18.8 and utilizes an easy to navigate KDE desktop environment. With over 2GB of compressed data, Open Office, Firefox, Thunderbird, Frostwire, Ktorrent, Amarok, Flash, Java JRE and Beryl 3D are just a few of the many included applications you will find on the Live CD making PCLinuxOS 2007 a great candidate to install to a USB flash drive.

The following USB Linux Mint creation tutorial covers how to create a Linux Mint 5 USB Flash Drive using Windows. You can then boot and run Linux Mint from the USB device. Linux Mint is a popular remix of Ubuntu Linux. Originally launched as a variant of Ubuntu with integrated media codecs, Linux Mint has developed into a very user-friendly Linux distribution. Currently maintained by Clement Lefebvre, more information about Linux Mint can be found at the Official Linux Mint site.

The following Simply MEPIS 6 USB Flash Drive creation tutorial was created per the request of Jason Frothingham. He couldn't fathom why we didn't list a USB creation tutorial for the ever so popular MEPIS Linux. Well Jason, here it is. In the following tutorial we cover how to install, boot and run MEPIS from a USB device using your Windows PC.

MEPIS is a popular Linux version founded by Warren Woodford in November 2002. It was created because Warren didn't like how other desktops worked, so he decided to create his own. The first version was released to the public in May 2003. MEPIS originally used Debian packages and now includes and is based on Ubuntu packages.